It’s safe to say that at the end of its eight-episode first season, Prime Video and the Westworld team of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have seemingly pulled off the impossible and successfully adapted ...

Aristotle's defense of "natural slavery" shows how it rationalized ancient hierarchies, defined societies, and influenced ...

Ancient Greek thinker Aristotle believed humans are social beings. He wrote that solitude is unnatural. Aristotle's ideas ...

As philosophers go, Aristotle was no angel. Sure, he established the first formal system of logic, and yeah, his theories dominated Western science for thousands of years. Yet he was also an avowed ...

Alex Dempsey decides to make a difficult decision for his family. Best friends Leila and Abbie go their separate ways. Evelyn gets dethroned and gets a taste of her own literal medicine. Still, in the ...

Aristotle explained how politics can go wrong: “Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more ...

Plato, 428-348 BCE, grew up in a war-ravaged Athens fighting the Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BCE. This civil conflict nearly wrecked Greece. Athens and its Greek allies fought Sparta and its ...

In his powerful book The Burnout Society, South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that in modern society, individuals have an imperative to achieve. Han calls this an "achievement society" in ...

Harmonic, an AI startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, announced Monday the beta launch of an iOS and Android chatbot app where users can access its AI model, Aristotle. With this launch, the ...

In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information. When I ask whether artificial ...

To demonstrate that we have knowledge of something, we have to show that we understand the factors that explain it. Aristotle calls these 'principles,' 'causes,' and 'elements' among other things. To ...

The quote first appeared in a 1926 book by U.S. historian and philosopher Will Durant titled "The Story of Philosophy." It is part of a passage in which Durant helps to elucidate a concept first ...